Run the freedom caucus in the house and was his former chief of staff, as the chief witness in the insurrection case. so, what we ll have to see what happens. obviously you have the supreme court case related to whether or not he can be on or off the ballot as a result of the 14th amendment. i think that s going to be a mission-critical case as well. but, you know, he ll pull any stunt. he ll do anything. and obviously the intention is very, very important to mr. trump. so, stuff like that gets him attention. it gets you scratching your head, others scratching their head. i don t scratch my head anymore because, you know, i m, sort of, immune to it. i think we have to call it though, for sure. we definitely have to call it out. yeah. i have to ask you, anthony, not to have you look into your crystal ball, do you think knowing what you know about donald trump, do you think he gets through this year without being convicted, say, for example, in the election
Problems for him. i think he s staying closer to what is more traditional blocking and tackling for a prosecutor, obstruction of justice, conspiracy to interfere with the election, conspiracy to defraud the united states. those are cases that are really straightforward legal cases. yes, it is the former president of the united states, but these types of cases are brought every day in federal courts around the country, they re not political cases, they re normal defrauding the government types of cases. i think he s much better off staying closer to that line of approach than the insurrection case would involve for him. garrett, trump is then lashing out against the special counsel for days now. quickly, if you will, where is he today? yeah, i suspect that will continue both on social media and in his fund-raising appeals to supporters. he is raising money today in new orleans, at a more traditional campaign file fund-raiser and on
Privileges to do their job on january six. in a sense, he was interfering with the right of every american, because he was trying to stop the recognition of the rightful president. it is not really a surprise, the direction he s going in. george, there had been somebody who thought there might be an insurrection charge. we spoke to early honig on the program last night, he didn t think the special counsel needed the drama of an insurrection charge, that it was a bridge perhaps too far before jack smith chased. it does not need to prove the trump is trying to overthrow the government of the united states. do you agree with that? i do think that it s not necessary to bring an insurrection case as such, but i think the statutes that norman and his terrific volume, he and his colleagues preparing on the very statutory possibility series. it s absolutely right. you can defraud the united states by simply submitting false information, false certificates. you can also obstruct the congres
An insurrection charge. i spoke to elie honig on the program last night said he didn t think the special counsel needed the drama of insurrection charge, that it was perhaps a bridge too far for myths taste only doesn t need to prove that trump is trying to overthrow the government. do you agree? i don t think it s a business area to bring insurrection case as such, but i think the statutes that norm and his terrific volume that he and his colleagues prepared on the various statutory possibilities here is that absolutely right. you could fridays by submitting false information, false certificates, and you can also obstruct the congressional proceeding through violence or fraud. i think it s important to take a step back here and just remember, there are just dozens and dozens of possible state and federal crimes at issue here. in the private sector or the public sector, if you engage in
yeah. it could be. it depends you have to tie donald trump to the actual statements. you have to show he knew exactly how the fund-raising was being done that may be very easy to do. but you have to connect him to the false statement. i have to say, i don t think that the insurrection case is frankly all that hard. i think if you look at just the amount of evidence and the various amounts of evidence, because there s so many components to the conspiracy, i think this is one where jack has a lot of work to do, but i don t think putting the case together is something that people like jack smith are going to view as hard thank you very much, andrew weissmann. told you, you are the perfect guest. see you soon thank you abortion hurdles the abortion pill on the market but with major hurdles for women
Exchanges were, but the way it s being characterized, as of course it should be. i ll also say one other thing about this, as you read this document i mean, andrew makes the point that there are some real question and hopefully d.a. bragg will be asked about trying to tie together some things how he gets to federal here he comes. good afternoon. thank you for joining us here today. earlier this afternoon donald trump was arraigned on a new york supreme court indictment returned bya manhattan grand jury on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree under new york state law, it is a felony to falsify business records with the intention of fraud and intent to conceal another crime. that is exactly what this case is about
Campaign in hindsight, i think yes they voted for him after access hollywood but in the moment we didn t know. i think early it is crucial to know that trump built some very unlikely alliances in the republican base, especially with the evangelicals, that were not taken for granted when he first ran. he believed in the beginning he could do all kinds of transgressions, but he thought this was crucial he wanted to pay her in cash. he thought this was important. jim, i hope you stay near the camera between 4:00 and 6:00 thank you for spending time with us coming up, donald trump locked in another court in another case today a potentially hugely consequential ruling there we ll tell you about it. don t go anywhere. ttle bro? i m not touching you, i m not touching you!
So it s intent that s what you are trying to do, you are trying to, in this case, conceal some other crime, and what the d.a. appears to be saying is that could include the federal campaign violation that michael cohen pleaded guilty to. a state campaign violation, and ami false business filings, and it appears essentially a state crime. so there appears to be this litany of all sorts of things that could include be that sort of felony bump-up it s also important to remember that the jury could be charged that if you don t find a felony, what s incls called a lesser included offense is a misdemeanor. it doesn t mean the judry isn t
Trump and his world. so david pecker knew a lot trump was very concerned about what david pecker knew our reporting at the time had shown that trump wanted to get more out of david pecker that may concern him. so the case and investigation was continuing what we also know, though, is that then attorney general barr, he would come in as this case was ongoing, he did not love this case. and he s spoken about that he didn t love this idea that people are talking about now about campaign finance case, this idea of an in-kind contribution so it was clear that the leadership at justice didn t love this whole investigation. so that could have been mixed up but a lot of it was shrouded to us, and that david pecker deal was always quite fascinating but very importantly, now, if david pecker spoke about this in